Hello folks, well even this happens...

Our only bigger LHS in whole serbia got robbed on weekend!!!

900 Boxes of Italeri, Zvezda and Atlantic kits are taken away from the supply depot.

URGENT CALL FOR HELP for all modelers who notice any of the folowing stickers on models sold in their LHS so we can track theese bastards and help out our only suplier here.

Pictures of declaration stickers





If any info available please report to my email

senseitanaka(at)yahoo.com

thanks
Mirko 'Sensei' Jovanovic

If anything rolls down here Mirko i ll let u know . 900 kits ..thats a hole load !!!! I wish u get them

Have the police, any theories on where in the world, these kits are going?

Nope, but our local modelers will check all the flea markets here and few neighbour countries modeles asociations are alarmed, no one steals 900 boxes of kits for himself, they will try to sell it somewhere...

only problem is if they sell it by taking the sprues out of the boxes and selling cheaper...

It's best to check e-bay aswell regularly, and/ or other online auction sites.

Indeed, no one steals 900 kits for himself ( well... no lol :-) :-) )

I at least hope the persons responsible will be caught, and some kits can be brought back.

sorry to hear that Mirko.i wish they will find them before leaving country.
almost a 0 possiblity but i will inform you if i hear anything about this sticker
best regards

Hi Mirko!

That's really a big blow to your LHS!
Check regularly ebay on items from Serbia - and also contact other Hobby Shops in the area for anyone trying to resell the items - a good possibily too!

I'll pay attention to those stickers - although I find it difficult to arrive at this part of Europe

Skipper

Only problem with the stickers...they can easily come off by taking off the plastic (unless most kits in Europe don't have a plastic seal on them)

Anyway, if they were going to be sold at flea markets or on Ebay, that would be the easiest way to get rid of the incriminating evidence.

That's a shame, and the kind of thing that most LHS could not recover from. I'd be willing to bet they show up on ebay. I've often wondered how many ebay "deals" were "hot". I hope the kits are recovered.

Chuck

A similar thing happened to oune of ouor LHS a few years ago. IIRC, it was an inside job and the guy was caught.

Hope it happens the same in this case... I mean the guy(s) getting caught! It stinks what they did!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato

Didn't Sabot just post some new pics of his fantastic stash?????

Sorry to hear what happened. It's nice to know that these damn people don't care whose lives they ruin by destroying their business.


And just for the record, I was never near the place!

Wow, Alan. That really isn't all that funny. Hope I'm not being offensive here and I have a really dry sense of humor, ask my wife, but I fail to see the humor in your Sabot comment.

Maybe it is just me...

Back on topic:

I hope the kits were insured because chances are they won't be recovered.

Shaun

I hope they catch them - it is theft and cn lead to extreme hardship of the small business
ian

That stinks:( and we wonder why LHS's don't stick around

I agree with Snowhand, check ebay, look for complete kits without boxes, look for sellers shipping from that area, look for a new seller who has a lot of items and no feedback.

I check ebay just about everyday - I'll keep my eyes open.

Very sorry about this crime. Not at all on par with your loss, but I had a dozen +/- build display models stolen from a closing hobbyshop years ago--but my livelyhood didn't depend on it.

I hope they are caught, all your kits recovered, and they are harshly punished

BTW, what is a LHS?

Fred, LHS=Local Hobby Shop.

I did not know what it meant the first time I saw it either.

Shaun

Hi Mirko,,.Had to read this a second time,.makes me so dam angry, small business battles all over the world, and we dont need free loaders, sorry for you mate... had my way Id stick the cheeks of their bums together with super glue , force em to eat peas in publi
c, sorry guys this just gets up my nose.... .......
Phil walden........

Well Alan, I thought your remark was kinda cute. There is not a person here who would even remotely suspect Rob is not a man of total honor.

My scout troop just took a tremendous hit late last week . Our trailer full of all our camping gear was stolen. So I am in definite sympathy and hope your rat bastards are caught as well as ours.

Mirko, I am sorry to hear this. I am hopeful the culprits will be caught and the kits returned. Kevin

well we just got some great news. in my earlier post I told that our boy scout troop trailer with all our camping gear had been stolen. we had it mentioned on one of the local TV news channels here in Dallas. Today we got a call from Lockheed Martin plant here in Grand Praire to give us $7200 to replace the whole ball of wax. That is just incredible good news for us, as our old trailer is robably in Mexico now. We also have a local trailer company giving us a super discount and is going to give us a great rate and paint it up pprofessionally with our troop markings whcih will help prevent it rom being stolen too. We also plan to get it put in a fenced area on the church property , so this is great news. I hope the hobby shop gets good news as well.

I do not like to be implicated as a thief even in a jokingly manner.

I had never really thought about model kit theft. I wonder if this happens often.

On my post here in Belgium